Alabama State News

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Alabama transportation officials will discuss the next step in a construction project on the new U.S. Highway 98 corridor in Mobile County.

Police are asking for the public's help in their search for a young mother who's been missing for more than two weeks in the Birmingham area.

Vickie Gibbons didn't have to worry about retrieving President-elect Barack Obama political signs the day after the election.

The Justice Department has sued Alabama officials for allegedly violating a law that protects absentee voters overseas, including those serving in the military.

Baldwin County authorities are on the lookout for a man who has been posing as a police officer.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Mobile SWAT team officers swarmed around a house, set off an explosive device and arrested two men sought in a bank robbery.

Blaring train horns that have rousted sleeping hotel guests in downtown Mobile will fall silent Thursday under an agreement between the port city and railroad officials on a "quiet zone" - a move that is becoming popular around the country.

The Justice Department has sued Alabama officials for allegedly violating a law that protects absentee voters overseas, including those serving in the military.

A collision between a school bus and a pickup truck in Houston County sent five students to a hospital with minor injuries.

Blaring train horns that have rousted sleeping hotel guests in downtown Mobile will be falling silent as the port city and railroad officials have agreed on a "quiet zone" - a move that is becoming popular around the country.